Interview with Michaela Bronstein

Abstract

Michaela Bronstein is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Stanford University. Professor Bronstein researches the historical context of the novel, focusing on connections to Anglo-American modernism. In inspecting literature from 19th-century Russian and British authors to later 20th-century African and African-American authors, Professor Bronstein seeks to understand the transhistorical afterlives of literary works and examine how narratives that had a particular effect during their own times have become a part of more recent histories. In her most recent work, Professor Bronstein has delved into the modern television realm in order to connect the intimate temporalities of reading with the broad temporalities of reception. 

Her publications include her book, Out of Context, as well as her manuscript-in-progress, Crimes for All Humanity: Revolution and the Modern Novel. She teaches a variety of English classes at Stanford such as Narrative and Narrative Theory, Serial Storytelling, and Literature and the Future.

Professor Bronstein attended the University of Oxford for her undergraduate education followed by graduate work in Yale University’s English Department. Prior to joining Stanford in 2016, she also worked as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Visiting Lecturer at MIT.